Lighting Regulations

Flash Technology is issuing this technical bulletin to notify customers, sales, technical support and service teams that a firmware release will start shipping with all Vanguard Medium FTS 370x tower lighting orders starting October 24, 2018.

The new obstruction lighting system firmware includes the following features:

Easy access to the PLC COMM quality metrics with the elimination of the password requirement for the Factory Diagnostics Menu.

The unit now remembers mode override across reboots with a 15-minute granularity. This does not include manual switch overrides.

A “Flash Specification” menu item with the following tower configurations on the OLED Display has been added:

Updated beacon firmware version mapping to display in the format V3.X.Y where X & Y are the specific firmware version numbers.

Added “FLSH SPEC ALM” to OLED display to indicate if there is a beacon with firmware version pre-V3.4 and flash specification set to values other than FAA. This is to catch non-supported beacons with non-FAA specification configurations. For ease of reporting, flash specification alarm is reported as a regular configuration alarm to all the monitoring interfaces except display.

Real-time clock support (for Rev E or later Controller PCB) has been added.

Current system time can be viewed or set from the menu System Settings > Real Time Clock.

Daylight Savings Time option is added with options Enabled/Disabled. If set to enabled, then daylight savings time will be automatically adjusted as per the schedule. If a new time is set then it is assumed that the time has been set according to the adjusted daylight savings clock.